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2009-10 Conference Primers: #10 – Missouri Valley Conference

rtmsf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:33:51 +0000

Patrick Marshall of White and Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Creighton (24-6, 14-4) Northern Iowa (23-6, 13-5) Wichita St. (23-8, 12-6) Southern Illinois (21-8, 12-6) Illinois St. (23-7, 11-7) Bradley (19-10, 10-8) Indiana St. (17-13, 8-10) Drake (13-18, 5-13) Evansville (10-19, 3-15) Missouri St. (9-21, 2-16)

All-Conference Team. This is a guard laden league which will populate the Missouri Valley All-Conference team this season.

Kevin Dillard (G), So., Southern Illinois ( 12.2 pts., 4.2 ast.)—The bright spot for Southern Illinois last season is a tenacious ball handler and defender. Clevin Hannah (G), Sr., Wichita St. (11.2 pts. 4.3 ast.)—Hannah comes in as the leader for [...]

RTC Aftermath: MVC Quarterfinals

rtmsf — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:14:10 +0000

RTC Aftermath will come to you each night where our correspondents are at the conference tournament games as a part of RTC Live. Patrick Marshall is in St. Louis all weekend covering the MVC Tournament for RTC.

Today you experienced our live blog of the Bradley-Southern Illinois game in the quarterfinal round of the MVC tournament. This game was up and down for both teams. Both teams were ready to go:

Bradley won this game by hitting timely shots and wearing out the Salukis. The Salukis shot only 35% from [...]

Missouri Valley Conference Wrapup & Tourney Preview

rtmsf — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:34:13 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the MVC and Big 12 Conferences. He will be reporting from the MVC Tournament this weekend in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Missouri Valley Conference finished regular season play this last week with Northern Iowa and Creighton sharing the MVC regular season crown. Due to the complicated tie-breaker formula, Northern Iowa received the 1-seed for the MVC Tournament and Creighton the 2nd. My preseason predictions weren’t exactly what happened, but like the whole bizarre Valley season usually is, the middle was all muddled up. No one [...]

Checking in on the… Missouri Valley

rtmsf — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:29:12 +0000

Current Records and my standings (Conference Record)(Last Week Rank)

Creighton (23-6)(12-4) (2) Northern Iowa (18-10) (12-4)(1) Illinois St. (22-6) (11-5)(3) Bradley (16-12) (9-7) (4) Evansville (16-11) (7-9) (5) Drake (17-12) (7-9) (7) Wichita St. (14-14) (7-9) (6) Indiana St. (9-19) (6-10) (8) Southern Illinois (11-17) (6-10) (9) Missouri St. (11-17) (3-13) (10)

BRACKETBUSTERS

This weekend all 10 teams took part in the annual ESPN Bracketbusters event. Though the league went 7-3 in its games, 2 of the top three teams in the league suffered losses. The MAAC was not friendly to the Valley as Illinois St. lost to Niagara and Northern Iowa continued its slide losing [...]

Checking in on the… Missouri Valley

nvr1983 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:25:21 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 and Missouri Valley Conferences.

Current Records and My Standings (Conference Record)(Last Week Rank)

Northern Iowa (18-8) (12-3)(1) Creighton (21-6)(11-4) (2) Illinois St. (21-5) (10-5)(3) Bradley (14-12) (8-7) (4) Evansville (15-10) (7-8) (5) Wichita St. (13-13) (7-8) (8) Drake (15-12) (6-9) (6) Indiana St. (7-19) (5-10) (10) Southern Illinois (11-15) (6-9) (7) Missouri St. (10-16) (3-12) (9)

The Missouri Valley Conference has basically come down to two teams fighting for an NCAA spot—Northern Iowa and Creighton. UNI due to their run in the conference and the likelihood of them winning the regular season conference crown and Creighton [...]

Checking in on the… Missouri Valley

nvr1983 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:31:52 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 and Missouri Valley Conferences.

Current Records and My Standings (Conference Record)(Last Week Rank)

Northern Iowa (17-7) (11-2)(1) Creighton (19-6)(9-4) (2) Illinois St. (19-5) (8-5)(3) Bradley (13-11) (7-6) (4) Evansville (15-8) (7-6) (5) Drake (15-10) (6-7) (6) Southern Illinois (11-13) (6-7) (7) Wichita St. (11-13) (5-8) (8) Missouri St. (10-14) (3-10) (9) Indiana St. (5-19) (3-10) (10)

The Missouri Valley Conference is part of the ESPNU Bracketbusters event (February 21st) once again this season and received 4 games on one of the ESPN family of networks:

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Checking in on the… Missouri Valley

rtmsf — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:20:38 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the MVC and Big 12 Conferences.

Current Records and my standings (Last Week Rank):

Illinois St. (10-0) (1) Creighton (8-2) (2) Drake (9-3) (4) Evansville (8-2) (3) Missouri St. (7-3) (5) Northern Iowa (6-5) (7) Bradley (5-5) (6) Wichita St. (5-5) (9) Southern Illinois (4-6) (8) Indiana St. (2-8) (10)

The non-conference season for the Missouri Valley Conference basically ended this past week with conference play starting next Sunday. The non-conference games left for the Valley this coming week are most teams playing lower level competition that should result in wins for the Valley. [...]

After the Buzzer: UCLA’s Fab Five Debut

rtmsf — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:53:23 +0000

Story of the Night. UCLA’s freshman class. Last year’s freshman class arguably boasted the best player in the country in Kevin Love, but this year’s version, while lacking in equivalent star power, may more than compensate for Love’s loss with its depth and diversity of skills. Jrue Holiday was the only rookie starter tonight in UCLA’s win against Prairie View A&M, but his four classmates (Drew Gordon, Malcolm Lee, Jerime Anderson and J’Mison Morgan) each came off the bench and contributed aplenty. The quintet accounted for 41% of the minutes, 44% of the points, 44% of the rebounds and 43% [...]

2008-09 Season Primers: #10 – Missouri Valley

rtmsf — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:04:14 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley and Big 12 Conferences.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Creighton (27-4, 15-3) Southern Illinois (25-6, 14-4) Bradley (22-8, 12-6) Illinois St. (22-8, 10-8) Drake (21-10, 10-8) Indiana St. (17-13, 7-11) Wichita St. (15-15, 6-12) Northern Iowa (15-15, 6-12) Evansville (14-15, 6-12) Missouri St. (13-17, 4-14)

WYN2K. Last season, Drake was predicted to finish 9th in the league and ended up having a dream season, winning the conference and the conference tournament, only to be knocked out by Western Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament in a thrilling game. [...]